Mind Handles Zero as an Absence

If, in the concept of absence,
Nothing is still some sort of thing,
Then there must be something to it

And, moreover, must be something
Else more truly nothing, nothing
Putting some somethings on notice. . .

Nothing’s better than nothing
For tangling things up in things
That can’t get an edge on nothing

Merely by waiting and waiting.
An infinity of waving
Ways to indicate there’s nothing,

But no way to being nothing —
No absence, emptiness, nothing.